: In a high performance microprocessor such as Digital's 300MHz Alpha 21164, the distribution of a high quality clock signal to all regions of the device is achieved using a c...
All synchronous CMOS integrated systems have to pay some sequencing overhead. This overhead includes the skew and the jitter of the clock. It also includes the setup time and the ...
Martin Saint-Laurent, Vojin G. Oklobdzija, Simon S...
Power dissipation is unevenly distributed in modern microprocessors leading to localized hot spots with significantly greater die temperature than surrounding cooler regions. Exc...
The power consumption due to the HW/SW communication on system-level buses represents one of the major contributions to the overall power budget. A model to estimate the switching...
William Fornaciari, Donatella Sciuto, Cristina Sil...
Conventional snoopy-based chip multiprocessors take an aggressive approach broadcasting snoop requests to all nodes. In addition each node checks all received requests. This appro...